PASCAL FRAMENT - Video artist

Pascal Frament was born in 1968 in Paris.
In 1988, Pascal Frament entered the Clouet workshop in Paris. There, the teaching of Marie and Christian Clouet would be determining teachings. As he was coming from an East trip, he decided to enter the art schools of Orleans. He attended Patrice Rollet's classes, who was literary director of the Cahiers du Cinema. In 1992, he met the cinema of Mekas, Pelechian, Scorsese, Lynch, Antonioni.....
Pascal Frament then studied plastic arts in the art schools of Lyon, where he obtained his end-studying diploma (DNSEP). He joined up with a post-diploma section, created by Jean-Luc Gervasoni, where he continued his researches and experimentations about video, on 16 and 35 mm film.
He was interested in music, perhaps more than in images. He developed electro acoustic devices, in collaboration with Jean-François Estager and the Grame (national center of musical creation of Lyon). In 1995, his work is impacted by the cinema of Marker, Tarkovsky or Godard as well as by Marshal McLuhan's theory. Thus he created original media-technique systems that established an intimate link with the viewer, sometimes until physical commitment.
Thanks to a study grant and an artist-in-residence program, he was able to have one of the first light digital machine of video montage. Then he could work out sequences at any moment, based upon a pictures bank that he daily composed. This was a turning point in his way of working.
In 1999, he met the composer Laurent Saïet and worked on a "tribute project": Cinéphilie 1. With him, he extended his technique by (re)editing films of twenty directors (Lynch, S. Ray, Scorsese, Cronenberg…).
Since 2000, he has taken part in many festivals and collective exhibitions, at the Centre Pompidou, the Grand Palais, at the FIAC, at ArtParis, and in several Parisian galleries.
In 2006, he exhibited "Ici même", an environnemental installation, with the composers Jean-Luc d'Aléo, Jean-François Estager and Henri-Charles Caget at the MAC of Lyon. It was a series of video installations, monumental projections and sound surroundings extending on 450 m².

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